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Oprah Winfrey's Islam "Belief" Doc Is a Proselytizing Marvel

If you didn't know anything about Islam--the real Islam, that is, a supremacist, supersessionist faith which has as its toxic core an implacable Jew-hatred and the jihad imperative--and were you to watch the Oprah Winfrey's documentary about it (it's part of her "Belief" series), you might

1. wonder what all the fuss/"Islamophobia" was about, since Islam sounded pretty fan-freakin'-tastic; and
2. be tempted to recite the "shahada" and become Muslim, licketysplit.

So nice of Oprah to do her part to advance the faith, don't you think?

But while Muslims may be pleased with her spin, Christians...not so much.

Palestinian 'Toonist Who Glorified Throwing Rocks at Jews Gets Abu Mazen's Highest 'Toon Prize

The 'toon itself isn't funny, but Abbas's reason for giving it a prize is pretty hilarious, albeit unintentionally so:

Abbas explained that al-Bukhari received the award because his work “fits Palestine and its resolute and full culture,” according to the announcement, which ran in several Arab news outlets.

How proud he must be of a "full culture" that's so full of Jew-hate.



"Advance, advance..." an Al-Bukhari cartoon encouraging stone-throwing terror attacks by Arabs.
Photo Credit: PMW / Al-Ayyam

       

Way to Whitewash Savage, Bloodthirsty Jihadis, Al Jazeera!

Risibly but perhaps not unexpectedly, the Qatar-based news organization calls ISIL a group of  "insurgents"--you know, as if they're your common, garden-variety sort of "rebel"/"revolutionary".

Join the Truth Revolution

It is a revolution inspired by the words of George Orwell, who knew a thing or two about how the powerful and their minions lied repeatedly and often in the same short, memorable sound bites ("Hope and Change"/"Real Change Now," anyone?) in order to bamboozle and lord it over the rabble.

Here's Orwell's prescient, pre-Obama/John Kerry/Justin Trudeau/Hillary Clinton/squishstream media line:

In a time of universal deceit - the truth is a revolutionary act.

And, if you consider how proponents of sharia and leftist ideology think of free speech (i.e. as something that is beyond the pale because it is blasphemous/offensive), in our time telling the truth has often become a criminal act.

They Had Faces Then

OMG, was she ever a looker!



R.I.P. Maureen O'Hara, one of the most beautiful stars of Hollywood's golden age--or any age.

New Book By Yale Prof Contends That Climate Change--Yes, Climate Change!--Could Spark Another Holocaust

I first came across this (bad, kooky, somewhat hysterical) idea yesterday, when I picked up a copy of Timothy Snyder's book at my local branch of our national book/lifestyle chain (which seems to put more emphasis on the latter these days). Here's how the book was described last month in the JPost:

In a bold New York Times Op-Ed published last weekend, Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder argues that climate change could lead to a resurgence of Hilter-esque geopolitical thinking.

“The Holocaust may seem a distant horror whose lessons have already been learned,” he writes. “But sadly, the anxieties of our own era could once again give rise to scapegoats and imagined enemies, while contemporary environmental stresses could encourage new variations on Hitler’s ideas, especially in countries anxious about feeding their growing populations or maintaining a rising standard of living.”

Snyder, author of the new book “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning,” draws parallels in the Op-Ed between the World War II and more-contemporary battles for resources.

Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union to seize Ukraine’s fertile soil — as well as to kill the Jews living there — Synder (sic) writes. The Nazi dictator was motivated, he explains, by his obsession with securing Europe’s resources for the German people.

More recently, the Rwandan genocide in 1994 “followed a decline in agricultural production for several years before,” notes Synder (sic). And in Sudan, he writes, drought helped start the Darfur genocide by forcing Arabs to migrate to land inhabited by non-Arab ethnic groups.

Hitler wasn't driven by what we think of as "climate change." He wanted to change the climate of the planet in a positive way by ridding it of the plague of Jewry. His was a really awful, crackpot idea that, dead Jew-wise, ended up being astonishingly successful.

Today, there is another Shoah in the offing, and it, too, involves people in the grip of a terrible, crackpot idea--the Shias' belief that they must rid the world of Jewry in general and Israel in particular in order to coax their messiah, the inordinately shy twelfth imam, from his cozy hiding place so he can return to preside over Shia global supremacy. And they plan to pull it off via a nuke or two dropped on Tel Aviv.

Now, that would change the climate (as would, say, ISIS enjoying continued success with its global caliphate project, yet another product of bad, megalomaniacal thinking). But since that Holocaust has nothing to do with the professor's ecologically-driven thesis, it isn't part of his Algorithm--or on his Algorian GPS. (I know that for a fact because when I scanned the book's index online, I found it went from "International Women's Day" to "Iraq War," with nothing on Iran.)

A Song for Young Green Eyes (A.K.A. Our New Prime Minister)

You see a pair of big green eyes
And suddenly you're sighing sighs.
He sings a little tune,
You swoon,
And fall for his crap.
That tune, that swoon, they're part of the Trudeau trap.

He says he's for "the middle class,"
Conservatives are awf'ly crass.
You're putty in his hands; his plans
Make you want to clap.
Those plans, those hands, they're part of the Trudeau trap.

Some months from now
When you gained some more perspective
You may wise up and you'll see your voting
Was defective.

Then all at once you have regrets,
Start smoking Justin cigarettes.
You take another toke
The joke's
So droll you go, "Snap!"
You thank your stars that you're so high.
The only way to take this guy.
You hate your fate--
You're stuck in the Trudeau trap.

Jew-Hate All the Rage in Palestinian Pop Cult

"Whassup with all the knifings in Israel?," ask the sob sisters of squish-wing media? Commentary's Jonathan Tobin takes a stab (sorry) at explaining it. As he sees it, it's about the Arabs' inability to countenance the presence of "filthy" Jews on land claimed in perpetuity for Allah, a longstanding hatred that infuses and animates their music (call it Zionhass hip hop). A run down of some Palestinian hits of interest include:

...“Stab, stab,” or “Run Over, Run Over the Settler,” [which] ought to give even Americans who tend to idealize attacks on Israelis as a legitimate form of protest pause. 

The [New York Times] article correctly points out that popular music is integral to spreading the message that killing random Jews with knives or by any other means is a laudable activity. Some of the artists tell the Times that their goal is only to get Palestinians to stand up for their rights. But it’s hard to see how pulling a knife and stabbing ordinary Israelis will do that. That’s especially true when you recall, as Times articles never do, that the Palestinian leadership has rejected several Israeli offers of statehood and independence that would have given them control over almost all of the West Bank, a share of Jerusalem, and Gaza. 

Indeed, the focus on the mosques on the Temple Mount, a standard theme of Palestinian leaders dating back, as I noted earlier today, to Hitler’s Palestinian ally, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, is a reminder that the real issue for the Palestinians isn’t borders or settlements but the Jewish presence anywhere in the land. In their eyes, the “settler” that the song wants to run over can be a resident of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem as much as a Jew living in a West Bank settlement. 

Nor is there any divide within Palestinian society between those urging peaceful protest and those cheering murder. As the Times points out, a Palestinian, who won the “Arab Idol” television song contest and was appointed a United Nations goodwill ambassador, released a new song this past week that specifically references stabbing incidents in Jerusalem and Afula. The common denominator that runs between these more sophisticated offerings and more crude efforts is the shedding of Jewish blood and willingness to glorify anyone who kills Jews as a hero whether it is a youngster with a knife or Hamas fighters launching rockets at Israeli cities.

The response to this lamentable situation from Israel’s critics is to blame the victims and to urge Israel to redouble its efforts to make peace and thus ally [sic] the anger that is driving this culture of hate...

Jews should be familiar with this sort of anger/hate. It's the same type of hate that sparked all the massacres, all the pogroms. And, pace Michael Coren and other sob sisters who were so affronted by Netanyahu's Mufti line, it's what gave rise to the Holocaust.

You can't make "peace" with that sort of hatred. You can either defeat it--or be defeated by it.

Period. End of story.

Fat Cat

Getting a little pudgy there, aren't you Mahmoud? Might be a good time to cut back on all the hummus--and let out your trousers.

Michael Coren (Who Never Really "Got" Israel) Blasts Bibi for Implicating the Grand Mufti in Hitler's Holocaust

Writing in the NatPo, Coren joins the leftist pile on:

For anybody who understands the Holocaust, the Shoah, the Final Solution; for anybody who understand the Arab and Muslim world of the 1920s and 30s; for anybody who genuinely cares about a safe and secure Israel, this is vehemently absurd, dangerous and pernicious. Indeed the leader of the opposition in the Knesset, Isaac Herzog, demanded that, “Netanyahu correct it immediately as it minimizes the Holocaust, Nazism and Hitler’s part in our people’s terrible disaster.”

Coren's conclusion (which follows many, many paragraphs later):

The Holocaust is not a Muslim issue. It breaks my heart to say it, but while Christ the Jew and Christ the Son of God was shamed, the mass murder of six million Jews was a product of Christian Europe, not Islam or the Middle East. Prime Minister Netanyahu, I know you are angry, but you have a lot of apologizing to do. Now please, before it’s too late. 

Here's the letter I wrote in response:

No one disputes that Hitler was the prime mover of the Holocaust. However, I think Michael Coren is a bit too quick to absolve Islam entirely of the sort of hysterical, obsessive Jew-hatred that fueled the German megalomaniac. One need look no further than David Nirenberg's recent book Anti-Judaism, a brilliant analysis of the roots of anti-Judaic thought in the West as well as in Islam. Regarding the latter, Nirenberg notes that the Quran, Islam's holy book, "is extensively structured as a polemic against the Jews." Meanwhile, Islam's founder, the man whom Muslims are told is "perfect" and whom they are commanded to emulate, is said to have transformed Jews into "apes and pigs," and ordered the beheading of every adult male of the Banu Qurayza, a Jewish tribe.

So while, as Coren writes, "The Holocaust is not a Muslim issue," in some crucial ways, Hitler's thinking re Jewry and portions of Islamic thinking could be said to be in synch. Then, too, there's the fact that Hitler was a huge fan of the more martial aspects of Islam. As he told his favourite underling, Albert Speer: ‘It’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why did it have to be Christianity, with its meekness and flabbiness?” Hitler far preferred Islam, which he called a Männerreligion—a “religion of men.” And he admired the rewards which Islam promised its jihadi martyrs—a paradise of "houris" and free-flowing wine. That sort of thing, argued Hitler, was much more suited to the temperament of the German warrior than was the “Jewish filth and priestly twaddle” of Christianity.  

Finally, one would be remiss in this context--as I believe Coren is being--if one failed to mention that Hitler's Holocaust is serving as the inspiration for the Holocaust, Part 2, or Holocaust, The Sequel, the one that Iran's supreme leader (who, ironically, is a hardcore Holocaust-denier) is hoping to unleash on Israel, the Jewish State.

Update: CAMERA detects a heap of punditocracy animus in responses to Bibi's Mufti claim.

Update: And furthermore:

In the pantheon of Nazi collaborators, Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini is right up there with Pavelic in Croatia, Petain in France, Horthy in Hungary, and all the other quislings—their name comes from the collaborationist leader in Norway, Vidkun Quisling—who implemented Hitler’s will. It was, ironically, the British authorities who appointed him to his position in 1921. During the 1929 massacre in Hebron, as during the openly anti-Semitic 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine, al-Husseini proved himself a confirmed Jew-hater and the natural ally of Hitler in the Arab and Muslim worlds. 

It wasn’t until November 1941 that the Mufti met Hitler in person. Significantly, in the view of many historians, that encounter in Berlin took place two months before the Wannsee conference, where leading Nazis led by Hitler’s security chief, Reinhard Heydrich, plotted the implementation of the “Final Solution”—the extermination of the Jews. 

In the official German record of their discussions (not an exact transcript, but a summary of what was said), it was clear that both Hitler and the Mufti were already in agreement that the Holocaust had to be visited upon the Jews. For his part, the Mufti expressed his appreciation of Germany’s commitment to the “elimination of the Jewish national home,” while Hitler restated his “active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests.” 

For good measure, the Fuhrer added that “Germany was also aware that the assertion that the Jews were carrying out the functions of economic pioneers in Palestine was a lie. The work there was done only by the Arabs, not by the Jews”—a slander that could easily be expressed in the exact same words by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that targets the “Jewish national home” in our own time. 

That last point highlights a critical factor which the furore around Netanyahu’s speech—much of it generated by visceral opponents of Israel who only talk about the Holocaust when it justifies their backing of Palestinian violence against Jews now—has largely missed.